Regnery Publishing
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Regnery Publishing, located in Washington, D.C., is a publisher that specializes in conservative books that they characterize on their website as “contrary to those of 'mainstream' publishers in New York.” [link] The company has been a division of Eagle Publishing since 1993.
Publications
Books published by Regnery include:- Aldrich, Gary. Unlimited Access. ISBN 0895264544.
- Horowitz, David. Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left. ISBN 089526076X.
- Malkin, Michelle. In Defense of Internment: The Case for "Racial Profiling" in World War II and the War on Terror. ISBN 0895260514.
- Nietzsche, Friedrich. Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks. 1996 reprint: ISBN 0895267101. Translated with an introduction by Marianne Cowan.
- Olson, Barbara. Hell to Pay: The Unfolding Story of Hillary Rodham Clinton. ISBN 0895262746.
- O'Neill, John E.; & Corsi, Jerome E. Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry. ISBN 0895260174.
- Patteron, Robert. Reckless Disregard: How Liberal Democrats Undercut Our Military, Endanger Our Soldiers, and Jeopardize Our Security. ISBN 0895260867.
- Schlafly, Phyllis. The End of an Era. ISBN 0895266598.
History
It was founded in 1947 as Henry regnery Company by Henry Regnery, and was originally located in Chicago, Illinois. It originally had a close affiliation with the University of Chicago, and published books for the Great Books series at the University, which were primarily classics. The first book published by Henry Regnery Company was the The German Opposition To Hitler by Hans Rothfels, who was an close friend of Henry Regnery. One of the first well-known books it published (in 1951) was God and Man at Yale by William F. Buckley, Jr..In the 1970s Henry's son, Henry F. Regnery, worked at the company; he was killed in a commercial airliner crash. In the 1980s, Alfred S. Regnery, the other son of Henry (Henry F. Regnery's brother), took control of the company. In the 1990s, the Regnery family sold the publishing company to Phillips Publishing, which put the book publishing company into its Eagle Publishing subsidiary. Eagle Publishing also publishes the weekly, Human Events. Alfred Regnery has subsequently left his post as President of Regnery Publishing to become the publisher of the conservative American Spectator magazine. He still holds a seat on the Board of Directors. Pat Sajak is also a member of the board. Alex Novak, son of political columnist Robert Novak, is director of marketing.
Criticisms
Leftwing critics contend that Regnery provides an outlet for extremist, right-wing, anti-science screeds and fictional biographies designed to denegrate mainstream political personalities [link][[Citing sources citation needed]], since Regnery has published books by authors such as Newt Gingrich, former Republican Party Chairman Haley Barbour, Barbara Olson, and Ann Coulter. Regnery has published books about AIDS by Peter Duesberg (who claimed AIDS was not caused by HIV) and Michael Fumento (who claimed that AIDS was more likely to be contracted by homosexuals than heterosexuals).
Ethical lapses
In 2006, Regnery editor Ben Domenech was discovered to be a serial plagiarist.
External links
- [Official website]
- [Eagle Publishing's website]
- [Report] by the Southern Poverty Law Center report on the racist activities of one of the scions of the Regnery family.
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